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Why do we display? Drive interest and inquiry, excitement, wonder, to inform, make pretty, new action, TEACH!!!! The 10 Commandments of Book Displays 1. Your displays must offer more than the bookstore. 2. Be careful that your displays don't become bookshelf clutter. Create a schedule for changing displays and stick to it. 3. If your display is fulfilling the requirements of district or state initiatives, do not make it your main display. It will be too public for students to want to checkout the materials . i.e. anti-bullying. 4. If you have ESOL and ESE students, then your displays should have materials to meed this need as well. 5. It is okay to have cute displays, holiday display, new book displays. There are our bookstore level displays. 6. Realia make displays more powerful. 7. Always have a digital connection. 8. If you display student art, display "how to: materials with it. Not every art lover has art class. 9. Plan for the need to restock your display. If you only have four books on a topic you want to display, you may need to buy more or supplement with online materials with QR Code signage. 10. Don't assume that a topic not interesting to you won't be interesting to your patrons. Display to Drive Interest to Sewing in the Makerspace Sewing machine, materials, how-to guides, sign-up sheet Senior Display Begin with quote, materials that address each part of the quote. (Every book or material in the display dealt with learning the skills mentioned in the quote. Gardening Display How-to books, Tips, Online information, Why gardening information. (I want to take this to a potting a herb to take home activity.) If you have a display you would like to share with my readers, please send a picture with your name and library to [email protected]. Thanks for reading! On the first day of FETC, a tech conference held in Orlando each year, four celebrities of the tech world present new and interesting tech in a pre-keynote session. In this session, called the #techshare, every fun, interesting, and unusual new tech that the presenters find is shared in rapid fire delivery. It is a fast and furious fun ride and I wouldn't miss this session at FETC. As if taking a selfie is not silly enough, now you can have your selfie on your toast. I think I need one of these to take my grill cheese sandwiches to the next level. Slide by Kathy Schrock. I think there may be a theme here. I am looking for ways to make my daily life easier and I really can't count on my husband, who works from home, to pay attention to the crockpot. So, here is my handy solution. Another slide by Kathy Schrock. On the way to work, I would feel very happy to find a hot pot of coffee waiting for me. I so need this. Maybe I can get the boss to fund this project---you know, to boost staff morale in the media center. A cup that will warn me if my coffee is low. A cup that will reheat my coffee and charge my phone. You may have found this coffee-ologist's perfect present. Thank you, Kathy Schrock for this one! I don't know why, but I just need one and I think the reason Hall Davidson gave is a good one. Pictorial documentation is a good start. And I have lost a phone to damage at the charger connection port, so I need this. It is prescriptive! It's only nine dollars! I am ordering it right now!!! Thanks, Adam Bellow. Well, by my count, Kathy Schrock is still holding the record for the most money taken from my wallet! Poor, sad, empty wallet! Maybe we should move FETC before Christmas and then I can say the new tech in my house and work is from Santa?
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